Owens, R. J.
Summary: "The song "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" is personified, describing the Black history and culture that inspired its creation. Written in 1968 by singer James Brown after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the song became an anthem for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OWESummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMContents: disc 1. Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) ; Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South ; St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) ; Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) ; Heebie jeebies (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) ; Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) ; Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller) ; Pony blues (Charlie Patton) ; My black mama (Part 1) (Son House) ; Tiger rag (Mills...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: disc 6. We are family (Sister Sledge) ; I will survive (Gloria Gaynor) ; Fight the power (part 1) (Isley Brothers) ; Rapper's delight (Sugarhill Gang) ; Breaks (part 1) (Kurtis Blow) ; Message (Grand Master Flas
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: disc 4. You've really got a hold on me (Miracles) ; Take my hand precious Lord (Mahalia Jackson) ; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech ; Cotton fields (Odetta) ; How blue can you get (B.B. King) ; No pity (in the naked city) (Jackie Wilson) ; President John F. Kennedy's address to the nation ; Change gonna come (Otis Redding) ; Walk on by (Dionne Warwick) ; Reach out I'll be there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: disc 5. I want you back (Jackson 5) ; I want to take you higher (Ike & Tina Turner & the Ikettes) ; Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall on Segregation ; Ball of confusion (That's what the world is today) (Temptations) ; What's going on (Marvin Gaye) ; Revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) ; My tribute (AndraGe Crouch ; Respect yourself (Staple Singers) ; Tired of being alone...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYRandall, Alice
Summary: "Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing/Atria 2024
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Summary: "A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"-how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorák prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 HORContents: disc 1. Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) ; Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South ; St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) ; Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) ; Heebie jeebies (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) ; Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) ; Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller) ; Pony blues (Charlie Patton) ; My black mama (Part 1) (Son House) ; Tiger rag (Mills...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYPhinney, Kevin.
Summary: "... a comprehensive look at race relations in the United States as seen through the prism of music from slavery to the present"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Billboard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.89 PHIQuestlove
Summary: Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song's significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 JONQuestlove
Summary: Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUESTLOVE QUEThomas, Velma Maia.
Summary: An interactive book-and-CD package documents the harsh realities of slavery and the spirit of African American people determined to seek their freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 780.89 THOIgus, Toyomi.
Summary: Chronicles and captures poetically the history, mood, and movement of African American music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 780.89 IGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 780.98 IGUMcNally, Dennis.
Summary: "On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Music McNallySmith, Charles R.
Summary: "The story of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's career told in verse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HENFerris, William
Summary: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 FERBergsman, Steve
Summary: "In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. However, there were many others, such as Margie Day, Helen Humes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers--Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier--changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWSteinbeck, Paul
Summary: This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique performance practices-- members played hundreds of instruments on stage, recited poetry, performed theatrical sketches, and wore face paint, masks, lab...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 STEWhiteis, David.
Summary: Explores the history of blues music in Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 WHIIllidge, Joseph
Summary: "When Prince burst onto the pop scene in 1978, he put Minneapolis on the music map. Many up-and-coming bands followed the trail that he blazed. MPLS Sound is the story of one such group--Starchild, led by a young woman inspired by Prince to start her own revolution. Through her journey, we see from within exactly how His Royal Badness transformed the entire Minneapolis scene."--Provided by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanoids, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ILLFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022